(07-26-2022 10:15 PM)BERT56 Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 09:42 PM)tcountytigerfan Wrote:  This home and home makes a lot of sense. Close by, easy drive for both programs, and should be W’s for the good guys.

Don’t forget our upcoming non-conference schedule - plenty of high end opponents coming up (super excited for 23!):

23: Missouri & Boise, both at home
24: at FSU
25: Arkansas at home
26: at Arkansas and at Boise
27: TBD
28: Mississippi State at home, at Arkansas
29: at Mississippi State
30: Boise at home
31: at Boise

I’m hoping we can get another P5 home and home put in there - I personally hope for Ole Miss because of the rivalry and easy road trip. Never want to play UT since they’ve dodged us for this past decade. Which leads to my last point - it takes two to tango, and I understand we’ve been told no far more than has been made public. The home and home + 1 buy game with Arkansas makes sense, and the 1 buy game at Florida State makes sense, but we need to find another P5 willing to do a home and home with us. Easy said, hard to do.

Thank you!! The MTSU game hits a recruiting hot spot for this staff and gives players from that area a chance to see us in person. Remember, Vandy has refused to play us since 1989 and UTK refuses a neutral site game. It also lets our kids from the Nashville area get to play close to home. May not mean a lot to some of our fans, but it’s a selling point to players and families in Middle TN. It’s also less travel costs for our program. Hopefully this takes the place of an FCS school, but I’m fine w this series. Plus we owe them a couple beatings.